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Digital Lounge: Commissioning of Home Missioners and Deaconesses

John Jessup Peterson and more than thirty other individuals will be consecrated as a home missioner or deaconess during General Conference. He discusses how the program provides an opportunity for lay people to answer God's call into a wide-variety of mission and ministry opportunities.

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